Really, what manual targeting does for you, especially with map contacts off, is it forces you to get good at 2-dimensional spacial perception and determining contact bearing, heading, and speed within the limitations of the simulation.
And the "limitations of the simulation" are significant. When you stand behind a real periscope and you physically turn in a circle to face things, you have a very very real feeling of where you are facing relative to your surroundings, and thus relative to the heading of the boat.
On the computer, you have none of that.
Steve
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